Sir John Wray, 3rd Baronet (21 September 1619 – October 1664) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654. Wray was the son of Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet and his wife Grisella Bethell, daughter of Sir Hugh Bethell of Ellerton, Yorkshire. He matriculated from

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at Easter 1635 and was awarded MA in 1636. In 1654, Wray was elected

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for

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for the First Protectorate Parliament. He succeeded his father as

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in December 1655. Wray died at the age of 45 and was buried at

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on 29 October 1664. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his cousin Christopher, 2nd Bt., of AshbyBurke, Messrs. John & John Bernard, ''The Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland'', Second edition, London, 1841, pp. 584–5. Wray married firstly Elizabeth D'Ewes, widow of

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, by whom he had no issue. He married secondly, in 1661, Sarah Evelyn, daughter of Sir John Evelyn of

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, by whom he left a daughter and heiress. After his death, Sarah married

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1619 births 1664 deaths Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge Baronets in the Baronetage of England English MPs 1654–1655 {{17thC-England-MP-stub